Tinsley Times: Being in the Moment vs Capturing the Moment

I had the strangest dream last night. It had me tossing and turning and I got very little sleep. I was franticly running around trying to hold onto memories. Worrying that I wasn't taking pictures of moments that I would never want to forget. Even in my sleep I was trying to remember moments with Bryan, my sweet and sarcastic brother-in-law. Gone too soon. So many moments with my boys that he is missing, so many memories that we are making without him. I remember late night conversations we would have long after everyone else had gone to bed. I remember him coming into my kitchen to check on me because I was baking a cake while everyone else was enjoying happy hour in the living room. I remember late night knocks on our door open to an unexpected visit. I remember catching him making early morning departures so he didn't have to say goodbye. I keep remembering these things that I don't have pictures of because no one takes pictures of those things.

Uncle Bry answering Jackson's many questions

With our 365 albums we watch our lives in snapshots. We watch our children grow and we capture these moments that no one thought to capture. My friends are capturing the moments that make up our lives and it's a wonderful thing! I used to think it was so much better to always be in the moment and not behind the camera but now I see that I can take a quick photo of a sweet 6 year old teaching Jackson to dive and another of Joel carrying his brother across the hot payment because he forgot his flip flops and another running out the door for our last night of bible school. And then I jump right back into the mix with my drive-me-crazy-rough-and-tumble-can't-imagine-life-without-them-boys. I prefer the quick break for the photo op to tossing and turning and trying to remember how my boys looked when...

Heading out for our last night of VBS